Ezechiel 4:1
And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee: and draw upon it the plan of the city of Jerusalem.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et tu, fili hominis, sume tibi laterem, et pones eum coram te, et describes in eo civitatem Jerusalem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ σύ, υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, λάβε σεαυτῷ πλίνθον καὶ θήσεις αὐτὴν πρὸ προσώπου σου, καὶ διαγράψεις ἐπ᾽ αὐτὴν πόλιν τὴν Ἰερουσαλήμ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאַתָּ֤ה בֶן אָדָם֙ קַח לְךָ֣ לְבֵנָ֔ה וְנָתַתָּ֥ה אוֹתָ֖הּ לְפָנֶ֑יךָ וְחַקּוֹתָ֥ עָלֶ֛יהָ עִ֖יר אֶת יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Tile, very large. (Calmet)
Those of Italy were two feet large and one broad. (Pallad.)
This might be soft clay; (Grotius; Menochius) or the siege might be marked out upon it with chalk or a sharp stile. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, What the ruler's discrimination should be between correction and connivance, between fervour and gentleness
Some things, however, ought to be vehemently reproved, that, when a fault is not recognized by him who has committed it, he may be made sensible of its gravity from the mouth of the reprover; and that, when any one smooths over to himself the evil that he has perpetrated, he may be led by the asperity of his censurer to entertain grave fears of its effects against himself. For indeed it is the duty of a ruler to shew by the voice of preaching the glory of the supernal country, to disclose what great temptations of the old enemy are lurking in this life’s journey, and to correct with great asperity of zeal such evils among those who are under his sway as ought not to be gently borne with; lest, in being too little incensed against faults, of all faults he be himself held guilty. …